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on iran. >> jon: damn you, transitive property. all we had to do was keep syria and israel apart and then iran will never get into it. that's all we have to do. got it >> rising tensions in asia, north korea threatened to quote settle accounts with the u.s. with a nuclear tip missile >> reporter: kim jongo novment you didn't. come on, now. somebody has a missile with a nuclear tip. come on. who is afraid of this guy? looks like he should be chasing pee wee herman for his bike. come on. >> it's believed the secretive regime has a nuclear arsenal of as many as 12 weapons. and powerful ones. >> jon: all right. 12 powerful nuclear weapons. how bad could that be? >> models show such a bomb could level an area roughly about the size of, say, lower manhattan. >> jon: say, lower manhattan? what, no. don't say. why do you have to say? just don't say. come on. 9/11, a flood and a hurricane. we've had enough disasters. don't use us as the hypothetical. when did lower manhattan become standard unit of destruction measurement? that's what i wan
on iran. >> jon: damn you, transitive property. all we had to do was keep syria and israel apart and then iran will never get into it. that's all we have to do. got it >> rising tensions in asia, north korea threatened to quote settle accounts with the u.s. with a nuclear tip missile >> reporter: kim jongo novment you didn't. come on, now. somebody has a missile with a nuclear tip. come on. who is afraid of this guy? looks like he should be chasing pee wee herman for his bike....
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iran and north korea. transitive property. someone call israel and tell them. í< ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight emmy-winning sportscaster for nbc, please welcome back to the program bob costas. ( cheers and applause ) nice to see you. >> how are you doing jon: always good to have a guest on that i can swap jackets with. we're going to talk sports. there's nothing that i like better than talking sports but before we get to the sports i have to talk to you about you found yourself at the center of a plit conversation when at half time during a football game tragedy in kansas city. >> right jon: with the football player who killed himself and then his girlfriend. you spoke of a gun culture >> right jon: and... quoted jason whitt lock a columnist from kansas city and now writes for the fox sports website who never mentioned the second amendment or gun control but talked about a gun culture which i do believe exists. it's an attitude toward guns. obviously i think any sane person believes that we ou
iran and north korea. transitive property. someone call israel and tell them. í< ( cheers and applause ) >> jon: welcome back. my guest tonight emmy-winning sportscaster for nbc, please welcome back to the program bob costas. ( cheers and applause ) nice to see you. >> how are you doing jon: always good to have a guest on that i can swap jackets with. we're going to talk sports. there's nothing that i like better than talking sports but before we get to the sports i have to talk...
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[ laughter ] a lot of technology. [ laughter ] nation, for years i've been warning you about iran. they're almost as big a threat as our other enemy ee-rahn. frightening. also, freetening. [ laughter ] but now there's an even bigger reason to be afraid. >> iran has just launched a monkey into space, lauding it is an advance in missile and space program that alarmed the west and israel. >> how did they launch a monkey into space? [ laughter ] >> stephen: excellent question, gretchen. how did they launch a monkey into space? [ laughter ] the possibilities are endless. [ laughter ] did they use a giant slingshot? or a monkey sized t-shirt cannon? [ laughter ] or did they do the obvious: put yellow-tinted glasses on a monkey and wait until a crescent moon so it thinks it's a banana and climbs up there himself? [ laughter ] how did they do it?! >> they've got rockets over there. [ laughter ] >> stephen: huh. they've got rockets over there. i did not see that coming. [ laughter ] folks, all this time we've been worrying about enriched uranium-- iran has been acquiring weapons of macaque
[ laughter ] a lot of technology. [ laughter ] nation, for years i've been warning you about iran. they're almost as big a threat as our other enemy ee-rahn. frightening. also, freetening. [ laughter ] but now there's an even bigger reason to be afraid. >> iran has just launched a monkey into space, lauding it is an advance in missile and space program that alarmed the west and israel. >> how did they launch a monkey into space? [ laughter ] >> stephen: excellent question,...
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those nations were under banking sanctions because of human rights atrocities, terrorism or in iran's case, a nuclear program. >> stephen: big deal. [ laughter ] it's not like hsbc was the one enriching plutonium, they were just enriching themselves. there's just one other thing. >> it laundered more than $800 million for mexican drug cartels. >> hundreds of thousands of u.s. dollars daily deposited to hsbc mexico using boxes specially made to fit through tellers windows to speed transactions. >> stephen: okay, but how was hsbc supposed to know the big specially made boxes the cartels were dropping off were full of drug money? they could have just as easily been filled with human heads. [ laughter ] turns out it was drug money and once they were caught, hsbc was slammed with a $1.9 billion fine. $1.9 billion dollars. do you have any idea how long it would take them to earn that back? four weeks. [ laughter ] i mean, you could take the special k challenge twice! [ laughter ] folks, just to show -- just so show how sorry they are for funding murder, hsbc has decided to partially defer b
those nations were under banking sanctions because of human rights atrocities, terrorism or in iran's case, a nuclear program. >> stephen: big deal. [ laughter ] it's not like hsbc was the one enriching plutonium, they were just enriching themselves. there's just one other thing. >> it laundered more than $800 million for mexican drug cartels. >> hundreds of thousands of u.s. dollars daily deposited to hsbc mexico using boxes specially made to fit through tellers windows to...
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are you iranian. >> iran wants a nuclear weapon. there's 33 countries in the world well nuclear energy and the capability to wild a bomb and they don't want it. >> stephen: you are in a film in the sundance fest val called pandora's promise. you come out as pronuclear energy. that's liberal heaven. bob redford started the sundance festival. can you say pronuke around him. legally redford could hunt you for sport. [ laughter ] you are ostracized for saying things like we might have to embrace coal, natural gas, fracking? and nukes. you are my kind of liberal. good luck get us to love franken styne. >> thanks, stephen.
are you iranian. >> iran wants a nuclear weapon. there's 33 countries in the world well nuclear energy and the capability to wild a bomb and they don't want it. >> stephen: you are in a film in the sundance fest val called pandora's promise. you come out as pronuclear energy. that's liberal heaven. bob redford started the sundance festival. can you say pronuke around him. legally redford could hunt you for sport. [ laughter ] you are ostracized for saying things like we might have...
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. >> hsbc is accused of transferring billions of dollars for nations like iran, doing business with firms linked to terrorism and enabling mexican drug cartels to move money through u.s. sub sid dairies. >> jon: money laundering with drug cartels and terrorist groups. i am surprised that those people would associate with bankers. [ laughter ] they have standards. banker slam! turley an industry populated with a lot of good people. i don't want to be so hard on these guys. you know? they did business with terrorists at the bank. everybody walked in. you don't know what they do. it's not like they were working with and counseling enemies on how to circumvent the entire security april rat russ. >> on at least one occasion hsbc taught them how to format messages so transactions would not be blocked by the united states. >> jon: are you (bleep) kidding me? they worked personally with these people to help them -- that is outrageous. i cannot believe our nation's enemies are getting better and more personal bank customer service than i am. i am going to have to transfer to hsbc. we can take soli
. >> hsbc is accused of transferring billions of dollars for nations like iran, doing business with firms linked to terrorism and enabling mexican drug cartels to move money through u.s. sub sid dairies. >> jon: money laundering with drug cartels and terrorist groups. i am surprised that those people would associate with bankers. [ laughter ] they have standards. banker slam! turley an industry populated with a lot of good people. i don't want to be so hard on these guys. you know?...
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iran does fact 2500 years. it's realizing the temples, every temple is the everlasting light to king darius. suddenly between the jewish religion, not just israel, the jewish population worldwide. i believe you put a very big t. on this. i admire everything you said, but i believe one of the worst stress push yourself, any one of us if we're ahead of what they did to iran. this is the right and affected the other repaired, is fragile in my opinion. i know iran. i know the whole royal family. i traveled with the empress. i believe everything you said is right. i want a quick question. i don't want to distribute. what about the islamic republic. what'll happen there? that's very key. they're going to give relations to israel, under the table relations. what is your opinion? >> trust is a very difficult issue. we argued in the book at the well-known antidote to trust his transparency. i think for many americans, this issue comes squarely focused on the nuclear issue today that with this lack of trust we can't poss
iran does fact 2500 years. it's realizing the temples, every temple is the everlasting light to king darius. suddenly between the jewish religion, not just israel, the jewish population worldwide. i believe you put a very big t. on this. i admire everything you said, but i believe one of the worst stress push yourself, any one of us if we're ahead of what they did to iran. this is the right and affected the other repaired, is fragile in my opinion. i know iran. i know the whole royal family. i...
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we are not suggesting attacking iran. we suggest, let iran be nuclear. doing everything, this was not done yet. only in the last year, the war proposed crippling sanctions. if we had done it a decade ago, we would not have this question now. the regime is a hated regime. i held the argument, if you just sanction them, the people will rally behind the regime. never happened. the people hate the regime. 65% of them are very young and they never knew the shah, and they blame the islamic republic for the problems. tough sanctions will change the regime. not attacking iran unless it is a last resort. once again, i am not speaking on other countries. what you did in iraq was a mistake. we can serve the public. i am not recommending it yet. [applause]>> let's move onto another topic area. a little contribution from dr. henry kissinger. we caught up with him in new york last week. let's have a listen to his intervention in this debate. >> thank you. for a decade and a half, american presidents from both political parties have declared that an irani and military
we are not suggesting attacking iran. we suggest, let iran be nuclear. doing everything, this was not done yet. only in the last year, the war proposed crippling sanctions. if we had done it a decade ago, we would not have this question now. the regime is a hated regime. i held the argument, if you just sanction them, the people will rally behind the regime. never happened. the people hate the regime. 65% of them are very young and they never knew the shah, and they blame the islamic republic...
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about iran. i think all that's very helpful. but i don't think that's the real issue. i think the real issue is that the u.s. government wanted better advice, obviously, it could get it. if it wanted a more realistic assessment, it could get it. so i think that's secondary. and my question to you is since you've had some experience in the government, what is the -- why is the government pushing this inaccurate assessment? and for me what i see is mainly that they don't want you, iran, to do nuclear enrichment for peaceful purposes. this is abrogating the npt. >> yep. >> and if they make an issue with iran, they're also making an issue with many other countries around the world in keeping a monopoly of enrichment capability. so to me, that seems the main issue in all this. i don't know if it's to you, and i'm wondering from are your experience in government, you know, what your sense is of this whole situation. >> it's a really, i think, profoundly important observation. um, you know, from our exp
about iran. i think all that's very helpful. but i don't think that's the real issue. i think the real issue is that the u.s. government wanted better advice, obviously, it could get it. if it wanted a more realistic assessment, it could get it. so i think that's secondary. and my question to you is since you've had some experience in the government, what is the -- why is the government pushing this inaccurate assessment? and for me what i see is mainly that they don't want you, iran, to do...
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war with iran. we have to ask you can we tolerate another major war in the middle east? this time with a country that is twice as large as iraq. it has larger land mass and its capitol city is two mountain ranges away from the nearest port facilities. will that war be effective? will it get the job done? how long will that war take? five years, 10 years, 20 years longer? how much will it cost? how many americans will die in such a war? 10,000, 15,000, more? how will such a war impact the middle east or america for that matter? do we want such a war? can we tolerate it? it seems that americans have already answered this from of the president it down, they have answered clearly and it is a no. they don't want such a war. the good news is they don't have to have it. if it becomes necessary, if the diplomatic efforts, the sanctions to stop iran were to fail we can manage a nuclear iran just as we managed china, north korea, and pakistan. thank you. [applause] >> while the debate is shaping up nicely nex
war with iran. we have to ask you can we tolerate another major war in the middle east? this time with a country that is twice as large as iraq. it has larger land mass and its capitol city is two mountain ranges away from the nearest port facilities. will that war be effective? will it get the job done? how long will that war take? five years, 10 years, 20 years longer? how much will it cost? how many americans will die in such a war? 10,000, 15,000, more? how will such a war impact the middle...
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to get other kinds of pressure on iran they will try and keep iran. do you think president obama appointed chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say we will see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine to be america's relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the. point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course our drone program but many of the covert programs that would be under his under his authority at the cia and that will be very much to israel's liking that will serve to undermine any attempts or any possibilities for a real coming to terms of the islamic republic of iran. there is an argument often made in washington that bashar al assad's fall would be a strategic victory against iran what can you say about an approach like that first of all at this point iran's most important arab ally is no longer syria it's iraq thanks in no small part to the united states i
to get other kinds of pressure on iran they will try and keep iran. do you think president obama appointed chuck hagel as a message to his throw that's difficult to say we will see but i'm skeptical that obama really is out to redefine to be america's relationship with israel and i would add to that in addition to the. point that we have the appointment of john brennan at the cia who i think is someone who the israelis are just fine with who will continue many of the covert programs of course...
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are not iran. size of population, amount of weight they have in the middle east. the reaction of iran could potentially be different. secondly, i don't know of any population that is going to side with the outsiders bombing its country. especially because this is not about democracy. we are not putting sanctions on iran for democracy and human rights. we are not bombing iran for human rights. we are bombing it and pressuring it for something that potentially the iranian people believe in, the technology, their government has told them this is for peaceful purposes and the iranians are probably about as affectionate about their program as the pakistani are about theirs. >> what about libya? >> libya is not iran. >> we bombed the population -- >> you were coming them, not for the nuclear program, you were bombing them to protect them -- >> you just said no government is attacked and the people rally on behalf -- >> no. i said -- >> i gave you an example. >> no, no. >> the pretext matters. what makes
are not iran. size of population, amount of weight they have in the middle east. the reaction of iran could potentially be different. secondly, i don't know of any population that is going to side with the outsiders bombing its country. especially because this is not about democracy. we are not putting sanctions on iran for democracy and human rights. we are not bombing iran for human rights. we are bombing it and pressuring it for something that potentially the iranian people believe in, the...
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well the iran is always an easy scapegoat for the west iran is blamed for everything except for global warming. but the reality is that western countries are the ones responsible for creating a civil war in syria they're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of syrians because they are on a daily basis with support of regional dictatorships and other regimes. trying to wreck the sovereignty and independence of the of the syrian state and refraining from finding a peaceful solution western countries have destroyed the infrastructure of libya and they have created the what we now see in mali and of course we saw the blowback in algeria so. you know the culprits are western regimes to allow also the most despotic embattled regimes such as saudi arabia to fund the extremists that are expanding across the region so there's no reason to blame iran of course iran will the syrian sovereignty and i think that the americans and israelis should take this seriously because the iranians through soft power and other means have made life very difficult for american americans and their allie
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we expect talks to happen in the next few weeks but really what's going to be at stake is iran going to continue to enrich at the level that it's been enriching at which is that that twenty percent level or is the west willing to ease some of the sanctions in exchange for iran agreeing to limit some of its enrichment which should not be a problem because you know purportedly we don't like having sanctions iran doesn't you know they say they don't necessarily need this enrichment so we should be able to find a deal but because of the mistrust because of the lack of a positive relationship the lack of real serious talks we have been able to get that deal done and so we were creeping towards this you know this potential red line that netanyahu and even president obama has hinted would be the time for a military confrontation and unfortunately i mean you know nothing. more than and even chuck hagel who came out didn't even really say that much opposition to israel i mean he said something back in two thousand and six and he hasn't gone up one hundred percent against iran and people are p
we expect talks to happen in the next few weeks but really what's going to be at stake is iran going to continue to enrich at the level that it's been enriching at which is that that twenty percent level or is the west willing to ease some of the sanctions in exchange for iran agreeing to limit some of its enrichment which should not be a problem because you know purportedly we don't like having sanctions iran doesn't you know they say they don't necessarily need this enrichment so we should be...
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obama has pledged to prevent a nuclear- armed iran, but hasn't laid out a red line of his own. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> the cooperation between our defense establishments is extraordinary. >> reporter: the u.s. and israel are working together with international sanctions against iran, close intelligence cooperation and what's thought to be a covert campaign of sabotage. but tehran continues enriching uranium, which it insists is for peaceful power generation only. and monday tehran said it had launched a monkey into space, showing off the kind of missile prowess that could be harnessed to deliver a nuclear warhead. >> the iranians are playing a cat and mouse game. >> reporter: israel's deputy foreign minister danny ayalon says iran's enrichment pace dictates israel's timeline. >> if they accumulate enough uranium which is close to weapons grade, enough uranium which enables them to detonate one nuclear device: to me is clearly a redline. the iranian strategy is very
obama has pledged to prevent a nuclear- armed iran, but hasn't laid out a red line of his own. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> the cooperation between our defense establishments is extraordinary. >> reporter: the u.s. and israel are working together with international sanctions against iran, close intelligence cooperation and what's thought to be a covert...
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obama has pledged to prevent a nuclear- armed iran, but hasn't laid out a red line of his own. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> the cooperation between our defense establishments is extraordinary. >> reporter: the u.s. and israel are working together with international sanctions against iran, close intelligence cooperation and what's thought to be a covert campaign of sabotage. but tehran continues enriching uranium, which it insists is for peaceful power generation only. and monday tehran said it had launched a monkey into space, showing off the kind of missile prowess that could be harnessed to deliver a nuclear warhead. >> the iranians are playing a cat and mouse game. >> reporter: israel's deputy foreign minister danny ayalon says iran's enrichment pace dictates israel's timeline. >> if they accumulate enough uranium which is close to weapons grade, enough uranium which enables them to detonate one nuclear device: to me is clearly a redline. the iranian strategy is very
obama has pledged to prevent a nuclear- armed iran, but hasn't laid out a red line of his own. >> iran's leaders should understand that i do not have a policy of containment. i have a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. >> the cooperation between our defense establishments is extraordinary. >> reporter: the u.s. and israel are working together with international sanctions against iran, close intelligence cooperation and what's thought to be a covert...
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would take against iran. >> yeah, he's going to say the right things on iran. there is the needer here but it is worth paying attention to the fact that hagel will have a lot of control over the pentagon budget, much more than he will in big decisions about what we're going to do with iran. those decisions made by the president, his national security staff. hagel will get a voice in that. but hagel is really going to have a lot of voice in shaping what the pentagon is going forward, so i think in a lot of ways his nomination could be more important in that way. the other thing is bob woodward wrote a piece in "the washington post" in which he quotes hagel saying to the president several years ago that he thinks the pentagon has had too much power in recent decades in dictating policy, that the president should take more control. i think hagel probably is going to bring that idea into the pentagon. he's going to leave these big policy decisions to the president. he'll give advice, but the big questions of when we go to war or how we go to are war won't necessari
would take against iran. >> yeah, he's going to say the right things on iran. there is the needer here but it is worth paying attention to the fact that hagel will have a lot of control over the pentagon budget, much more than he will in big decisions about what we're going to do with iran. those decisions made by the president, his national security staff. hagel will get a voice in that. but hagel is really going to have a lot of voice in shaping what the pentagon is going forward, so i...
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war with iran. we have to ask yourself can we tolerate another major war in the middle east? this time with a country that is twice as large as iraq. it has larger land mass and its capitol city is two mountain ranges away from the nearest port facilities. will that war be effective? will it get the job done? how long will that war take? five years, 10 years, 20 years longer? how much will it cost? how many americans will die in such a war? 10,000, 15,000, more? how will such a war impact the middle east or america for that matter? do we want such a war? can we tolerate it? it seems that americans have already answered this from of the president it down, they have answered clearly and it is a no. they don't want such a war. the good news is they don't have to have it. if it becomes necessary, if the diplomatic efforts, the sanctions to stop iran were to fail we can manage a nuclear iran just as we managed china, north korea, and pakistan. thank you. [applause] >> while the debate is shaping up nicel
war with iran. we have to ask yourself can we tolerate another major war in the middle east? this time with a country that is twice as large as iraq. it has larger land mass and its capitol city is two mountain ranges away from the nearest port facilities. will that war be effective? will it get the job done? how long will that war take? five years, 10 years, 20 years longer? how much will it cost? how many americans will die in such a war? 10,000, 15,000, more? how will such a war impact the...
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capabilities and even just to day take a look at this article iran could reach key point for a bomb by two thousand and fourteen according to quote u.s. experts yep the court of the international atomic energy agency the u.s. shouldn't tense if i sink sions and use military action to prevent iran from further developing their nuclear program so are sanctions or military intervention really the only two options here to help me sort through the misconceptions i'm joined now by jamal abdi director of the national iranian american council thanks so much for coming on great to be here so every year we hear the same rhetoric of course you know just today i saw that article the fear about two thousand and fourteen i mean how do we know what nuclear capabilities iran really how should we trust this agency to kind of tell us what's going on what we do have inspectors inside of iran we have inspectors on the ground that's a big deal that does give us some confidence that we know what they're doing there and that's why when a lot of people say well they could build a bomb they could do this th
capabilities and even just to day take a look at this article iran could reach key point for a bomb by two thousand and fourteen according to quote u.s. experts yep the court of the international atomic energy agency the u.s. shouldn't tense if i sink sions and use military action to prevent iran from further developing their nuclear program so are sanctions or military intervention really the only two options here to help me sort through the misconceptions i'm joined now by jamal abdi director...
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go has said in terms of iran does this prove them wrong. i think that angle has never been outside the box he has not been one of those inside washington calling for escalation against iran in fact he came out against unilateral sanctions in favor of diplomacy officially that is president obama's position as well there are enormous pressures coming from pro israel lobbies coming from the neo conservative forces in the tanks and in the media calling for more escalation for war against iran he has resisted that and i don't think the fact that he said. the magic words if you will during his testimony today is a shift i think just stands on the side of those insiders those washington insiders who are less so eager to go to war that doesn't mean there is no chance it just means that it's a very unlikely possibility that it will be such a lightning rod came under so much attack before he was even officially nominee and yet president obama stuck with him and said yes we are going to represent you know two to keep him as our as our candidate we're
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teheran iran. or from iran now to pakistan where the political crisis deepens with ongoing street protests on confusion over a recent court order to arrest the country's prime minister an old corruption charges officials call the development a soft coup with some accusing the judiciary and the military of a conspiracy to force out civilian leadership the supreme court decision gave a boost to the thousand strong protests in islamabad which has run into its third day and ultimately paralyzed the capital the demonstrators are led by a pakistani canadian muslim cleric who promised a revolution if the whole government does not step down and the protesters are really seen bloody clashes with police and more violence is feared as the chaos in the country intensifies artie's correspondent is in islamabad. we are standing here in a very crucial point actually it is called the flame us to square on the local language where. dr qadri and his fourth testers are gathered and demanded the government to step dow
teheran iran. or from iran now to pakistan where the political crisis deepens with ongoing street protests on confusion over a recent court order to arrest the country's prime minister an old corruption charges officials call the development a soft coup with some accusing the judiciary and the military of a conspiracy to force out civilian leadership the supreme court decision gave a boost to the thousand strong protests in islamabad which has run into its third day and ultimately paralyzed the...
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on the question of iran and the use of force, the president has said that iran's leaders should understand that president obama does not have a policy of containment. he has a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, that he's made clear that he will not hesitate, in his words, to use force when necessary to defend the united states and its interests. do you agree with president obama's position that, quote, all options should be on the table, closed quote, to let iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon? >> i do, i have and i strongly agree with it. >> on iranian sanctions. president obama has said that the sanctions which have been put in place are crippling the economy of iran. i have to agree. their currency has dropped 80%. oil production has plunged. the economy is in the shamples -- shambles. do you agree with the president's views on sanctions against iran and if so how do you reconcile your position with some of your past statements that suggest that the national security of the united states is not served by isolating iran? >> well, first, i do agree and always have ag
on the question of iran and the use of force, the president has said that iran's leaders should understand that president obama does not have a policy of containment. he has a policy to prevent iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, that he's made clear that he will not hesitate, in his words, to use force when necessary to defend the united states and its interests. do you agree with president obama's position that, quote, all options should be on the table, closed quote, to let iran from...
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oh iran is always an easy scapegoat for the west iran is blamed for everything except for global warming. but the reality is that western countries are the ones responsible for creating a civil war in syria they're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of syrians because they are on a daily basis with support of regional dictatorships and other regimes. trying to wreck their sovereignty and independence of the of the syrian state and refraining from finding a peaceful solution western countries have destroyed the infrastructure of libya and they've created what we now see him mali and of course we saw the blowback in algeria so. you know the culprits are western regimes to allow also the most despotic embattled regime such as saudi arabia to fund the extremists that are expanding across the region so there's no reason to blame iran of course iran will the syrian sovereignty and i think that the americans and israelis should take this seriously because the iranians through soft power and other means have made life very difficult for american americans and their allies in the reg
oh iran is always an easy scapegoat for the west iran is blamed for everything except for global warming. but the reality is that western countries are the ones responsible for creating a civil war in syria they're responsible for the deaths of tens of thousands of syrians because they are on a daily basis with support of regional dictatorships and other regimes. trying to wreck their sovereignty and independence of the of the syrian state and refraining from finding a peaceful solution western...
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>> i actually do think it is about iran, iran. after the dream team of hillary, panetta and pell tray you -- petraeus, the senate will have to scrutinize the records of all three of these gentlemen. for senator hagel his record on iran has been puzzling. he refused tos designate the iranian revolutionary guard core as a. obama administration is using to put pressure on iran and the senate will ask some tough questions why he refused to sign a letter to the european union calling for the designation of hezbollah as a terrorist organization when actually john brennan spent the past two years relentlessly trying to convince the e.u. to designate hezbollah as a global terrorist organization. this will be some interesting hearings and i think the senate will ask some pretty tough questions. jenna: to generalize that that that is interesting because it is about being able to name who our enmy -- enemies are in a broad context. general scales, senator kerry and senator hagel, both vets and supporters of the military and critics of the mi
>> i actually do think it is about iran, iran. after the dream team of hillary, panetta and pell tray you -- petraeus, the senate will have to scrutinize the records of all three of these gentlemen. for senator hagel his record on iran has been puzzling. he refused tos designate the iranian revolutionary guard core as a. obama administration is using to put pressure on iran and the senate will ask some tough questions why he refused to sign a letter to the european union calling for the...
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we're hearing from a diplomat, a report out of iran that iran is also trying to put the pedal to the metal, if you will for one of its nuclear sites. >> right. jenna: that's an interesting message also to get today on a week of news that we've had, michael. how do you make sense of what iran's saying is in light of the fact there is still a question whether or not there will be nuclear talks, diplomacy, the chuck hagel hearing how does it all come together. >> hate to say it, jenna. this is business as usual for iran. they are dragging its feet on talks trying to buy time while at the same time making leaps forward on the nuclear program. this should throw cold waterer that sanctions are working or somehow iranians will feel pressure to give up their program. the reality, jenna, iran sees making a deal or compromise in the united states as tremendously threatening. unless it really feels it has to, i don't think it is going to do that. that's why downplaying our military threat, that's why, the message sent by some of senator hagel's previous positions is so damaging to our overall p
we're hearing from a diplomat, a report out of iran that iran is also trying to put the pedal to the metal, if you will for one of its nuclear sites. >> right. jenna: that's an interesting message also to get today on a week of news that we've had, michael. how do you make sense of what iran's saying is in light of the fact there is still a question whether or not there will be nuclear talks, diplomacy, the chuck hagel hearing how does it all come together. >> hate to say it, jenna....
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with tehran hopeful for clear progress this time iran however as trust a deal is only possible if its right to peaceful nuclear energy is respected retracing its not seeking atomic weapons which is feared by the west the longer this mutual distrust hampers a solution the more sanctions are piled on the country but as all she is maria for a notion of found out they often only have the opposite effect awards was intended . the u.s. maybe serious sanctions against iran are not targeted at the general public but there was barely a single person from the population of around seventy five million who hasn't been a fan. i used to buy tomatoes and boxes and kilos now they're selling their own pieces. with. iran's all expertise fell by one million barrels a day in the last year following an international embargo has taken sixty percent of the oil revenue the iranian currency lost forty percent of its value against the us dollar causing twenty five percent inflation in october the highest in decades. behind this. is a suffering from rising prices and a lack of food and medicine in the west side
with tehran hopeful for clear progress this time iran however as trust a deal is only possible if its right to peaceful nuclear energy is respected retracing its not seeking atomic weapons which is feared by the west the longer this mutual distrust hampers a solution the more sanctions are piled on the country but as all she is maria for a notion of found out they often only have the opposite effect awards was intended . the u.s. maybe serious sanctions against iran are not targeted at the...
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iran, period. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> more iran. they put a monkey in space. also my interview with collin powell. miller wants to talk about those things and we will let him next. find their own adventure... ♪ sometimes the best road trip moments happen outside of the car. in nebraska, outdoor fun and adventure beckon from every corner. so get out and explore it all together. then when you get home, you can relive the memories with family and friends. whether you tweet it, update it, or pin it, share the road trip. ♪ woo-hoo! everybody's gotta find their own adventure... ♪ order your free copy of the nebraska travel guide today. >> bill: thanks for staying with us, i'm bill in the miller time segment tonight. let's get to the sage of southern california who joins us now from santa barbara. so my interview with collin powell last night. loss of people watched it posted on bill o'reilly.com and foxnews.com. in case you missed it, you can check it out there. what did you t
iran, period. thanks very much. >> thanks for having me. >> more iran. they put a monkey in space. also my interview with collin powell. miller wants to talk about those things and we will let him next. find their own adventure... ♪ sometimes the best road trip moments happen outside of the car. in nebraska, outdoor fun and adventure beckon from every corner. so get out and explore it all together. then when you get home, you can relive the memories with family and friends....
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against iran at least takes it off the table in the short run. i think that that is the case i think there's no support for for an adventure by the american people i don't think we can afford it and i think they're actually both of those appointments represent what happens in the long run you know you have to for crystal ball for the. thank you call her in and thanks for that contracting editor from foreign policy in focus thank you. the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying israel must move all settlers out of palestinian territories the paper says the settlements are a violation of human rights destroying palestinians property and crops and driving them off their land but israel has refused to cooperate with the investigation calling the report biased and counterproductive to peace efforts and the rights activist and blogger growing my own says vivid is eroding its own credibility israel has been complaining for many years that it's being singled out by various un organs. the human rights council one of the things it was formed
against iran at least takes it off the table in the short run. i think that that is the case i think there's no support for for an adventure by the american people i don't think we can afford it and i think they're actually both of those appointments represent what happens in the long run you know you have to for crystal ball for the. thank you call her in and thanks for that contracting editor from foreign policy in focus thank you. the u.n. human rights council has released a report saying...
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very moderate and soft in his characterizations of iran. that is a consistent pattern in his career. he now is in a position of saying don't worry about all of that. i didn't really mean it. so the defense of chuck hagel after this hearing has to be something like chuck hagel for secretary of defense, he is not a man of conviction. >> bret: charles? >> his problem isn't the paper trail. the problem is a demonstrated, incredibly remarkable lack of confidence. the two lines of attack up until today were ideological, the content of what he has been saying over the years is the main stream way out there, to the left of obama. as mccain pointed out. he got the surge wrong. the first line is on the content. he has been denying the sense of essence of a dozen statement and idea in the past. >> bret: from the left and the right. on the gay issue, climate change -- >> he has seen the light on dozen issues. challenged in congress. what happened today was shocking, because it showed an astonishing lack of competence. he was wobbly, weak. fumbling. as
very moderate and soft in his characterizations of iran. that is a consistent pattern in his career. he now is in a position of saying don't worry about all of that. i didn't really mean it. so the defense of chuck hagel after this hearing has to be something like chuck hagel for secretary of defense, he is not a man of conviction. >> bret: charles? >> his problem isn't the paper trail. the problem is a demonstrated, incredibly remarkable lack of confidence. the two lines of attack...
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i'm totally against the war in iran. that scares me. it seems to me that he's indicating that we're ready to go. >> well, you know, no country has a higher stake and a diplomatic solution than israel. we are our skin in the game and we'll be impacted in a significant way if there is war. for 15 years we've indicated a clear path. pressure economic pressure, pressure to stop iran in the program. they've taken a huge bite out of the iranian economy but their nuclear program is accelerating. by spring our prime minister said come spring, come summer by the united nations they will have enough rich uranium for a bomb. they'll take it, go under ground-- >> this spring. >> this spring. >> cenk: discuss israel have an agreement to act by spring. >> we are close in communication with the administration to figure out when it will be too late to stop iran. we believe crippling sanctions together with the military threat that sends to iran a simple thing. you will not have that bomb no matter what you do. right now they think that they're paying a
i'm totally against the war in iran. that scares me. it seems to me that he's indicating that we're ready to go. >> well, you know, no country has a higher stake and a diplomatic solution than israel. we are our skin in the game and we'll be impacted in a significant way if there is war. for 15 years we've indicated a clear path. pressure economic pressure, pressure to stop iran in the program. they've taken a huge bite out of the iranian economy but their nuclear program is accelerating....